Harness-tree



(No Model.)

W. 0. MILLER.

& Harness Tree. No. 242,552. 7 Patented lune 7, 1881';

UNHED STATES PATENT OFFIC WILLIAM O. MILLER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

HARNESS-TREE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,552, da.ted June 7,1881.

Application filed August 12, 1880. (N0 model.)

.To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, \VILLIAM 0. MILLER, ofDetroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented anImprovement in Harness-Trees, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of this invention relates to certain new and usefulimprovements in the construction of harness-pads which are flexible incontradistinction to those which are provided with a rigid tree.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the parts, and intheir combinations, as more fully hereinafter described.

Figure .l is a vertical central longitudinal section through the centerof the complete pad. Fig. 2 is a perspective ofone of my metallicpadplates. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of the check-hook andplate. Fig. 4c is a similar view of a modification when it is desired touse a detachable hook or post with which to engage the check-rein.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Arepresents a reinhook plate, with a hook, a, cast with or rigidlysecured thereto, or a hole, I), to admit securin g thereto a detachablehook or post, and also provided with a loop, 0, through which thecrapper-strap passes. These plates are cast with a loop, (I, on eachside of the body.

B is a metallic pad-plate, shown in Fig. 2, consisting of two verticalsides, 6, two end bars, ff, 011 top of the sides, (the latter beingprovided with an eye, g, or car, through which there is a hole, h,) andwith two pairs ofcrossbars, 1', and a single bar, It, at the bottom.

0 is aharness-pad, oI the usual construction, as attached to a rigidmetallic tree, and provided with burrs l, lfltO which to screw theterrets m. They are aso provided with other burrs, a a, into which toscrew the screwsr s, which secure the body of the pad to the flexibletree, which I will describe.

Two leather straps, D, (onefor each side of the tree,) are employed,with two pad-plates, B.

through the rings orloops E and folded under and back upon themselvesunderneath the bars f. Screws 7' are then passed through the foldedinner ends, downward between the upper pairs of bars 13 i into the bodyof the pad 0, and engaged with the burrs n. Then the screws 8 areinserted through the holes h in the ears g of the bars f, through thefolded outer -ends of the straps, and engaged with the burrs a in thebody of the pad. The terrets m are then passed through the straps,between the lower pairs of bars 1' i, and engaged with the burrs l inthe body of the pad. The shaft or belly band of the harness is secured,in the usual way, to the rings or loops E.

I am aware that a harness-pad eonsistin g of the check-hook plate A,having side loops, d, pad-plate B, and straps l) passing through saidloops and returnedoverthe harm, in combination with the body 0 of thepad, secured thereto by the screws 8 passing through hole h in thepad-plate, and screws 1' passing through the returned end of the strapDand engaging with the burrs n n, has heretofore been employed, and Itherefore lay no claim to such invention.

\Vhat I claim as my invention ,is--

1. In a flexible harness-tree, the pad-plate B, provided with the barsff, i, and 7., substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the pad-plate B, provided with the bars f f, i,and 7c, of the checkhook plate A, provided with side loops, d, andstraps D, substantially as described.

VM. 0. MILLER.

Witnesses H. S. SPRAGUE, Tnno. S. DAY.

